Zamzam is the name of a sacred well in Mecca. In 1933 an Egyptian shipping company bought the 24-year-old, 8,229-ton British passenger steamer British Exhibitor, renamed her Zamzam, redesigned one of her holds into a mosque with accommodations for 600, and set her to carrying Mohammedan pilgrims from Suez to Jidda, the port of Mecca.
Following an announcement by her owners last week that this strange old craft was long overdue at sea, Berlin announced this week that she had been "sunk by the German Navy"—probably by a surface raider—and that her passengers...
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